Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Today we make the seafood stew I needed. Full of flavor, texture, and fish heads. Let's have some fun with this one. Learning to cook Bouillabaisse with Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.
🔪 My Essentials
Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: amzn.to/3ZEgYr3
My Favorite Knife: amzn.to/3PZ6eAi
My Apron (other colors available): amzn.to/45uQOZr
Please note as an Amazon Associate I earn (a rather small percent 😅) from qualifying purchases through these links. Thank you!
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📕 Eric Ripert's Seafood Simple: amzn.to/3y98TBm
📚 Chapters
00:00 - Bouillabaisse, What is it?
01:04 - Prepping The Dish
03:58 - Simmering Fish Heads
06:02 - F*cked By Aioli
09:53 - How To Poach Seafood
12:32 - Plating, Tasting, What I Would Do Different
🍎 Ingredients (I'm omitting the aioli ingredients since that was f*cked)
• 1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
• 2 oz. / 56 ml. olive oil
• 2 leeks, white part only, washed and thinly sliced
• 2 small white onions, thinly sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 18 oz. / 500 g. canned Italian plum tomatoes
• 2 lb. / 900 g. tiny fish, like Porgies or Whiting, whole and gutted
• 1 ½ lb. / 675. whole Red Snapper with head reserved, scaled, gutted, cut into 4 steaks through spine
• 1 bouquet garni, (thyme, parsley, bay leaf)
• peel and juice of ½ an orange
• 5-7 pistils saffron
• 1 healthy shot / 28 ml. Pernod (I used sambuca)
• about 20 small red bliss potatoes (I got a mixed bag)
• 4, u10 scallops
• 12 fresh shrimp, ideally heads on and unpeeled
• salt and pepper
🫕 Equipment
• cake thermo
• large, wide, heavy-bottomed pot
• fine strainer, cheesecloth would be nice too
• plastic wrap
• medium sauce pan
• ladle
• serving platter
#anthonybourdain #bouillabaisse #seafood
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Real talk. Life's tough! Hope you're doing well, and if you're not... I've been there. ou aren't alone ✌️
Today we make the seafood stew I needed. Full of flavor, texture, and fish heads. Let's have some fun with this one. Learning to cook Bouillabaisse with Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.
🔪 My Essentials
Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: amzn.to/3ZEgYr3
My Favorite Knife: amzn.to/3PZ6eAi
My Apron (other colors available): amzn.to/45uQOZr
Please note as an Amazon Associate I earn (a rather small percent 😅) from qualifying purchases through these links. Thank you!
💜 Support me and get a shoutout! - ko-fi.com/mitchmai
⭐️ Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UCej3
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mitch.mai/?
📕 Eric Ripert's Seafood Simple: amzn.to/3y98TBm
📚 Chapters
00:00 - Bouillabaisse, What is it?
01:04 - Prepping The Dish
03:58 - Simmering Fish Heads
06:02 - F*cked By Aioli
09:53 - How To Poach Seafood
12:32 - Plating, Tasting, What I Would Do Different
🍎 Ingredients (I'm omitting the aioli ingredients since that was f*cked)
• 1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
• 2 oz. / 56 ml. olive oil
• 2 leeks, white part only, washed and thinly sliced
• 2 small white onions, thinly sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 18 oz. / 500 g. canned Italian plum tomatoes
• 2 lb. / 900 g. tiny fish, like Porgies or Whiting, whole and gutted
• 1 ½ lb. / 675. whole Red Snapper with head reserved, scaled, gutted, cut into 4 steaks through spine
• 1 bouquet garni, (thyme, parsley, bay leaf)
• peel and juice of ½ an orange
• 5-7 pistils saffron
• 1 healthy shot / 28 ml. Pernod (I used sambuca)
• about 20 small red bliss potatoes (I got a mixed bag)
• 4, u10 scallops
• 12 fresh shrimp, ideally heads on and unpeeled
• salt and pepper
🫕 Equipment
• cake thermo
• large, wide, heavy-bottomed pot
• fine strainer, cheesecloth would be nice too
• plastic wrap
• medium sauce pan
• ladle
• serving platter
#anthonybourdain #bouillabaisse #seafood
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Real talk. Life's tough! Hope you're doing well, and if you're not... I've been there. ou aren't alone ✌️
